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No. 321,791. Patented July '7', 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MORRIS P. BRAY, OF BIRMINGHAM, CONNECTICUT.-

CORSET.

SPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 321,791, dated July 7, 1885.

Application filed March 2, 1685.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MORRIS P. BRAY, of Birmingham, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Corsets; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a side view of a portion of the corset, showing an elastic section as introduced; Fig. 2, a partial side view of the same enlarged, illustrating the manner of connecting the clastic portion with the adjacent sections; Fig. 3, a vertical section through the elastic section, showing the cords in a series of pockets; Fig. 4, a transverse section through a portion of the elastic section and the adjacent section, to which it is stitched.

This invention relates to an improvement in the construction of elastic sections or gores for corsets, the object of the invention being to employ an india-rubber cord as the elastic medium; and it consists in the construction of the section, as hereinafter described, and more particularly recited in the claim.

The elasticity of the section is given to it by an elastic cord of peculiar construction. This cord is composed of numerous strands of rubber, (indicated at a in solid black, Fig. 2.) These several strands are arranged parallel to each other, and are inclosed by a braided covering, as also indicated in Fig. 2. The braided covering permits the expansion and contraction of the india-rubber body, similar to indie-rubber braided cord in which the body is composed of a single strand of indiarubber.

The section or gore, or whatever portion of the corset it may be, is composed of two thicknesses of fabric, 1) I). These two thicknesses are first stitched by parallel lines of stitches d, distant from each other, so as to leave a space between to form a pocket which shall receive the elastic cord. The width of the two thicknesses of fabric is according to the (No model.)

place in the corset or purpose for which the elastic gore or section is intended.

The elastic cord before described is run through one pocket, returned through another, then back through another, and so on. running from side to side, as indicated in Fig. 2, the fabric being fulled and the bend of the cord drawn close at each side.

In illustrating the application of my invention, I show it as a section, A, in a corset, B representlng one adjacent section, and G the other, between which the elastic section is 1ntroduced. The elastic section having been formedas before described, its one edge is lnt roduced between the two thicknesses of the ad acent sections-say B-as seen in Fig. 4,

and stitched thereto, e indicating the line of 5 stitches. The opposite edge is introduced between the thicknesses of the other section 0, 1n the same manner, and there secured by a line of stitches, e, as seen enlarged in Fig. 2. The lines of stitches should be run inside the bend of the elastic cord, and so that the line of stitches will pass through the cord thus securing the cord by the line of stitches which secures the section in the corset.

Owing to the fact that the cord is composed of several strands of india-rubber, the needle 1n its passage through the cord is not liable to injure the strength of the cord to any conslderable extent, as it would do were it a slngle cord, for the needle striking a solid cord would necessarily pass through it, as the st tches would be considerably less than the diameter of the cord; but there being several strands, the strands glance from the point of the needle, so that the needle readily passes between them, and thus the cord will not be in ured in the process of stitching; and when stitched not only is the fabric secured to the adjacent sections, but the elastic cord is secured by the same line of stitches. The braided covering serves also to sustain the stitches which pass through the cord, and

to hold the cord in its proper relation to the section.

9 A corset having an elastic gore or section composed of two thicknesses of fabric, traustions by lines of stitches running through the versely stitched to form a series of parallel fabric and cordof said elastic sections, subpockets, with an elastic cord composed of stantialiyas described.

several individual strands of india-rubber, MORRIS I. BRAY.

5 iuelosed by a braided covering run through Vitnesses: 1

said series of pockets from side to side, the JOHN E. EA'RLE,

said section stitched into the adjacent sec- Jos. C. EARLE. 

